Re: Not Inciting a Holy War

Well, I am currently developing a web application for our helpdesk. It relies on a MySQL-database and the frontend is done in PHP. The app is (at the moment) used for customers mail queries. Right now, I consider porting it to Perl, and this is what came my way:

PHP is much faster than plain Perl/CGI. (No wonder, it's an Apache module.)
Mod_perl might be as fast as or faster as PHP (I'm currently figuring out.)
Developing in PHP is quiet easy: besides the already mentioned automatic variable creation, I find it very handy, that you can put your PHP code directly into the HTML page. You don't have to wrap all your HTML into print() calls.
I really miss a PHP-CPAN. Because the app is more or less an email client, I have to deal with attachments and stuff. Finding a working, MIME-handling PHP class was really a pain, Perl has great MIME modules.
PHP can natively do HTTP Authentication. Simply send a 401 header and find username and password in special variables.
If you need database support, you have to recompile PHP (which is rather annoying). Perl just needs the proper DBD-module.

Just my .02 cents.

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RE: Re: Not Inciting a Holy War by Maclir (Curate) on Jun 19, 2000 at 05:58 UTC
One comment I would make regarding: Developing in PHP is quiet easy: besides the already mentioned automatic variable creation, I find it very handy, that you can put your PHP code directly into the HTML page. You don't have to wrap all your HTML into print() calls. Check out Embedded Perl. This allows you to incorporate your perl program logic within your html. Like most Perl situations, there is more than one way to do it. If you have lots of program logic, and a small amount of html, look at CGI.pm; if it is the other way around, EmbPerl. Either takes advantage of the performance of mod_perl. I cannot comment on some of the more sophisticated solutions such as Mason. Ken	[reply]

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RE: Re: Not Inciting a Holy War
by Maclir (Curate) on Jun 19, 2000 at 05:58 UTC

Developing in PHP is quiet easy: besides the already mentioned automatic variable creation, I find it very handy, that you can put your PHP code directly into the HTML page. You don't have to wrap all your HTML into print() calls.

Like most Perl situations, there is more than one way to do it. If you have lots of program logic, and a small amount of html, look at CGI.pm; if it is the other way around, EmbPerl. Either takes advantage of the performance of mod_perl.

I cannot comment on some of the more sophisticated solutions such as Mason.

Ken

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